129.9754321 – Diseased Cows and Catapults

I prefer a plagued geese trebuchet, but that’s just French Heritage. It’s our first podcast as the new rulers of this website and it’s a good one! Oh, sorry for the audio quality, the cows damaged the equipment pretty bad.

14:16 – Listener email discussion question “I was just wondering what it would be like if the three of you took over all of the responsibilities at 1 More Castle?”
20:25 – “The Legend of Zelda Overworld Theme” by GMZ Terrible Nose Orchestra
21:57 – Retro Showdown!
24:04 – Alex’s pick “Slam City with Scottie Pippen” (Sega CD 32X)
25:09 – Jonathan’s pick “Tomba!” (PS1)
26:24 – Chris’s pick “Space Harrier” (Arcade)
27:19 – It’s about to get crazy up in here with the craziest games imaginable brought to you by our new leaders of 1 More Castle. All hail!
59:02 – Now the rules are the same, but with more freedom!! Vote for your favorite in the showdown poll below, leave comments thanking our new leaders for all of their hard work, and believe me, you do not want to be on their bad sides…

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Jonathan Hallée

There's a lot more to Jonathan than playing retro video games, but it's mostly video games related. You can check out his work on Screwattack or his ramblings on twitter @Bigjonathan91 but, be warned, some people also think he's a cat for some reason... just roll with it.

Metroid would make a DAMN good movie. You don't need to focus on Samus for an hour and a half, you can present the ambience, the world around it. It'd be better than a mod of Never Ending Story or a remake of every freakin' mythological action movie out there.

Good episode chaps, i must respectfully disagree over the Hotline Miami question though. There were actually a fair few ultra-violent games that passed unnoticed before the Mortal Kombat/Night Trap controversy. Rather than home titles, a fair few of those were also arcade titles that would have occupied public spaces as well. NARC and Smash TV are good examples.

I think the issues that caused problems for MK and Night Trap were external political ones that were only tangentially related to the content of the games.

Also: I dont really like God of War, but I'm almost willing to vote on the strength of the Judge Dredd reference.

@bigjoe91 Sort of, but the thing that did for Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, which is why i doubt that Hotline Miami would have had as much of an effect (Night Trao, in particular, was incredibly tame in comparison to some titles available on the 16-bits!)